Experience

Timberline Lodge & Ski Resort

• United States
• Recreational Facilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Part-Time Ski Instructor Timberline Lodge

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  Timberline Lodge, Oregon, USA Part-Time Ski Instructor, Alpine Skiing, private and group lessons.



Powder Alliance

• United Kingdom

• Sr Ski Bum (Timberline Lodge, Ski Bowl, Meadows and Powder Alliance partners)

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  Pacific Northwest USA; Government Camp Oregon; Skiing weekends with Archer and Hunter (grandsons) and son Scott. During the week, skiing with Gary or solo. 2019 season includes plans for Cat Skiing at Anthony Lakes and/or Soldier Mountain .



TEKTRONIX INC

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechanical Engineer

  • May 2018 - Oct 2019

  Beaverton Oregon USA Mechanical product design engineer. Contract through Modis. A wonderful contract design position at Tektronix Television Products group. Designed two products in time for the IBC 2018 show in Amsterdam. Then contracted at WBSU working on BERTSCOPE projects.



Mt. Hood Meadows Resort

• United States
• Recreational Facilities
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Ski Bum

  • Dec 2017 - May 2018

  Portland, Oregon Area Retired. Ski Bum during the winter. Seeking contract/temporary work during May-Nov



FLIR Systems

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Sep 2017 - Nov 2017

  Wilsonville Oregon Contracting for 3 months through Lexicon Solutions. Job should end just as ski season is getting good -- perfect timing.



Protingent

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechanical Engineer (Client: Microsoft)

  • May 2017 - Jul 2017

  Wilsonville, OR My first contractor gig with Protingent. I'll be doing mechanical design at Microsoft on the Surface Hub products. The contract is perfect because it end in November, when it will be time to return to my other job as Jr Ski Bum. Well...... that didn't go as planned. Microsoft shut down the Wilsonville site and is moving the project to Redmond WA. So I am either retired or unemployed (depends on who you ask).



none

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Jr level ski bum and model airplane flier.

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2017

  Beaverton OR USA Took a year off (semi-retired). I skied every area in Oregon as part of my "Oregon Ski Safari". I built and flew a number of model airplanes. I painted the beach house. I drank beer on the beach while watching the sun set and keeping warm by the fire. I visited high-school best friends in Colorado.



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2016

  Hillsboro, Oregon Jan 2 2012 I will start at Intel as a Mechanical Engineer.


VirtenSys
• Brazil
• IT System Custom Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Mechanical/Thermal Engineer

  • Apr 2009 - Dec 2011


HP

• Azerbaijan
• Online Media

• Sr Engineer

  • Oct 2002 - Mar 2009

  • Proof-of -concept investigations, concept design, prototyping, testing, and release to production of a paper-path subsystem and two sensor systems for a large printer product.



Sequent Computer Systems

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager, Mechanical Engineering

  • 1990 - 2002

  • Formulation of product architectures and strategies for the Systems Packaging group. Specification, analysis, design, proofing, and release of products. Development of design and process standards for the Systems Packaging group. Symmetric multiprocessing computers which included large backplane systems, high speed interfaces (SCI), thermal management design, EMI containment, hot-swappable units (disk, power-supply, and fans), configuration definition, and cable management design.


Sequent Computer Systems/IBM
• Manager, Mechanical Eng

  • 1990 - 2002


National Semiconductor

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Aug 1984 - Nov 1988

  • Developed new backplane-less interconnect and enclosure design for board-level microcomputers. Implemented SMD program: design rules and specifications for PCB's, component specifications, and selection and installation of production equipment.


Tektronix
• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee
• Mechanical Engineer

  • Feb 1980 - Aug 1984